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College of The Bahamas Career Symposium and Fair to Profile Professions and Passions
By Office of Communication, The College of The Bahamas
Sep 9, 2014 - 3:11:12 PM

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Nassau, Bahamas - Students at The College of The Bahamas will come face to face with some of the leading professionals in a diverse range of careers at the upcoming Career Symposium and Job Fair scheduled to be held on September 16th and 18th at The College’s Oakes Field Campus.

While the job fair is an annual event on The College’s calendar, the Counselling and Health Services Department now plans to double the interaction that students will have with respected entrepreneurs, media professionals, attorneys, architects, business leaders and many more professionals by adding the career symposium. The events are being held under the theme COB at 40 – Create Your Future.

“We want to afford students the opportunity to gain first-hand information on career options that are closely aligned with their fields of study,” explained Norma Turnquest, Career and Placement Counsellor and Coordinator of the Job Placement Advisory Committee.

“As such, panelists have been selected to represent the major disciplines within the College: Tourism, Business & Financial Services, Liberal & Fine Arts, Pure & Applied Sciences and Social & Educational Sciences,” she added.

The career fair will be held at its traditional location on Independence Park at The College’s Oakes Field Campus on September 18th. It will feature various exhibit booths profiling career options and will allow employers with job openings to make direct contact with college students.

The Career Symposium will be held at the Performing Arts Centre on September 16th from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.. Two separate panels will feature professionals like Hon. L. Ryan Pinder, M.P., Minister of Financial Services; Jerome Sawyer, Senior Manager, Public Relations BTC and Atario Mitchell, President and CEO, Bahamas Striping Group of Companies. Other will include Ed Fields, VP, Retail Services and Public Affairs, Atlantis; Jeffrey Lloyd, attorney-at-law and talk show host; Charley Sealey, VP, Doctor’s Hospital; Romauld Ferreira, environmental attorney; Keshelle Kerr, author, entrepreneur; Dirk Saunders, architect and Latonia Symonette, President, The Bayshore Group LLC.

The main objective of the symposium is to highlight career opportunities and some of the global issues facing students as they prepare for the job market in The Bahamas and globally.

“In the final analysis, I hope that students will use both forums as a means of exploring new careers or solidify a career already chosen. It can even provide the opportunity for them to forge a network of contacts for future mentorship and or employment,” said Ms. Turnquest.

These two opportunities are not the only ones afforded to companies and entrepreneurs who want to recruit students of The College for various job vacancies. Through the Counselling and Health Services Department, employers can also advertise them via a recruitment website

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